2010... Ready for "Phase 2"

Phase one (up until now):
-Transition
-Confusion
-Uncertainty
-Learning Curves (to say the LEAST!)
-Laying Foundations
-Sowing in a time of famine

Phase two (starts now):
-Building
-Earning
-Reaping
-Breakthroughs being manifested, not just hoped for or promised
-Winning over opposition, not just fighting all the time
-Finally benefitting from all we learned in phase one!

I am very excited that my phase 2 has begun! 

Merry Christmas Today Becuase You Know I Won't Post Before Then.... LOL

So I want to seriously wish all my friends a wonderful Christmas.  Not filled with stress and last-minute "oh shoot I forgot so-and-so's gift..." shopping.  Just remembering that, truly, Jesus is the ONLY reason for this wonderful time and looking around in amazement at all the incredible people He's planted in your life as a representation of how much he dearly loves you.

Update:  Judah is FINALLY crawling!!  Praise the Lord above.  I thought this day would never come.  Now that it is here I am kind-of wondering why I was in such a hurry.  He has eaten an array of what can only be called "rubbish" from our floor.  I have never swept and vacuumed so much in all my days!

So, I am making green bean casserole for Christmas dinner.  I am a bit nervous because it is my Aunt Marinell's recipe.  It includes worshteshire sauce, velveeta cheese and lots of butter!!  I think it sounds like an absolute treat!  Oh!!  It also has WHOLE button mushrooms.... YUUUMMM~~ I am SO pregnant.  Oh dear, no one is going to eat my food.  Eh.. more for me!

And I have 2 weddings to do hair for in one morning tomorrow.... I still have not figured out the inner workings of my own brain and why I booked both of them, but my glorious friend Abby is going to help me and I know it will all work out!!!  (That is complete blind faith talking!)

Merry Christmas to all and to all a good... rest of the month... uh, yeah!

Love,
Mary

Happy Thanksgiving!

So, there are many reasons I have been unable to blog for the month of November...
The main one is that Judah was a sick little man for most of the month.  I kept having to go to the doctor and get him on all kinds of antibiotics.  Finally I took him in and they tested him for RSV and we found out that was what kept causing him to get sick so frequently!  I was partially relieved and partially terrified!  He had to do treatments every few hours for a week and finally those are over! Yay!!

Needless to say I didn't sleep and neither did he... for pretty much the whole month!  I am so excited to become a part of society again.  I get to go to church tomorrow and everything.  So much to be thankful for. 

We had the privilege of doing Thanksgiving at our house again this year.  I will have pictures very soon.  It was so much fun :-)  We had about 15 people here and about 150 lbs of food or more!  Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday.  I love that you get to enjoy family and friends with no pressure of gift-giving and all that.  I love to give and I love to receive, but I feel sometimes that Christmas has just gotten out of hand.  I think we will start doing things to teach our kids that it is truly all about Christ coming in to the world and show them how they can bring Him into the lives of people that need Him.  Of course I want to bless my kids every year, but I feel the biggest blessing I can give them is to teach them how to reach out.  Just my opinion... not preaching here! 

Next week you may not hear from me.  I am taking Judah to see his Papaw and we are attending the funeral of my Great Aunt Midgie.  You may remember her from the pictures I posted back in July.  She was 92 years old and lived a full, wonderful life.  She got to meet Judah and for that I am grateful.  Her funeral is Wednesday and she will be greatly missed by all. 

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Helping Dad Work

Last night Micah watched Judah and could not get him to go to sleep so, as any good father would, he put him to work!  He proceeded to text me this picture while I was in the middle of teaching a class to women and I almost lost it completely...

Pumpkin Painting

I let Judah paint his own pumpkin today.  He had a blast (which goes without saying!) 

His main concern was eating the pumpkin stem...

He concluded that it was not the best taste in the world!

Sheee's Baaaack!!!

Sorry for the long delay in posting.  I didn't realize people read this thing until I got all these questions... "why haven't you put up new pictures, etc?"  So I am truly sorry, I will start the attempt to maintain at least once a week. 

So, if you are my friend on Facebook you already know that I am EXPECTING BABY #2!!!  If you have had children close together and have any sort of advice for me please let me know!  Micah and I are very excited, however we do have a bit of nervous energy since we are finally getting used to parent-hood in general!! 

My main concern is that all my children (present and future) feel like they are loved equally and abundantly. 

So "Glamma" came to visit this past weekend and here are some pictures of the fun we had...

Here are the cool jammies that she brought Judah... He was still in them late Saturday!  LOL

I was not a happy guy because people were trying to get me down for a nap so Glamma had to take me on a walk so I would go to sleep - FINALLY!!

 

SUCCESS!

Playing with one of my new balls that I got!!  Such good form already!

We went to the pumpkin patch and I got to ride the "big green tractor"

This is my new sport called "pumpkin surfing" 

This is my Clint Eastwood face....